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In the summer of 1910, just before his fourteenth birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald began keeping a memoir that he titledThoughtbook of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald of St Paul Minn U.S.A.Perhaps inspired by Violet Stockton, whose “Flirting by Sighns” (the misspelling is Fitzgerald’s) figures prominently...

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Published inThe Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald p. vii
Main Author Dave Page
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Minnesota Press 01.09.2013
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Summary:In the summer of 1910, just before his fourteenth birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald began keeping a memoir that he titledThoughtbook of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald of St Paul Minn U.S.A.Perhaps inspired by Violet Stockton, whose “Flirting by Sighns” (the misspelling is Fitzgerald’s) figures prominently in theThoughtbook, Fitzgerald penned a somewhat haphazardly organized series of observations until February the following year. Although most of the vignettes in theThoughtbookare set in St. Paul, where Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, several occur in Buffalo, New York, where his family resided for a decade
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